Webcast Follow-Up: The Flavors of Non-Clustered Indexes
Earlier today, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s titled The Flavors of Non-Clustered Indexes. In the session,...
2014-01-23
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Blog Posts
Being a Better IT Pro - Grammar
In my IT career, one of the things I have found that sets me apart is my ability to write....
2014-01-22 (first published: 2013-12-23)
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Cumulative Update # 8 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available!
The 8th cumulative update (CU8) for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft...
2014-01-22
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Easy Backup History Review Script
I often use these scripts to check on the backups of all databases in an unfamiliar SQL Server instance, regardless...
2014-01-22
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Get SQL Server Physical Cores, Physical and Virtual CPUs, and Processor type information using Transact-SQL (T-SQL) script
Today, I received email from one of my blog follower asking if there is any DMV or SQL script, which...
2014-01-22
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Powershell in a Month Day 12 – A Practical Interlude
This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in a Month...
2014-01-22
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PowerShell Remote Commands
This is something I've found useful here recently when I had a server acting up. It's a simple way to...
2014-01-22
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Reliably Drop A Database With CLR Stored Procedure
After I read Greg Low’s post and my initial try, I kept on thinking that I need to come up...
2014-01-22 (first published: 2014-01-20)
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SSAS Reporting Action with Date Parameters
Reporting Actions in Analysis Services allows you to open a report in Reporting Services. Most of the time users want...
2014-01-22 (first published: 2014-01-20)
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The “most_recent_sql_handle” column
While researching my last post I ran across an interesting column I hadn’t noticed before, sys.dm_exec_connections.most_recent_sql_handle. I mentioned it in...
2014-01-22
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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